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HE EUROPEAN WAR 

FROM A 
BIBLE STANDPOINT 



WILLIS F. JORDAN 

Pastor of the First Baptist Church 



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The European War From a 
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Having read the manuscript of the articles by Rev. 
Willis F. Jordan, entitled ''The European War from 
the Bible Standpoint," it gives me pleasure to commend 
same as a work of great merit, showing a large amount 
of study and familiarity with the Scriptures, which 
have been used to good advantage in giving accurate 
information as to the marvelous parallelism between 
present-day happenings and the prophetic word. In 
printed form these addresses should have a wide circu- 
lation and reading, and it is my earnest hope that this 
will be accorded them. 

Chari^es C. Cook. 



Preface 

The subject matter in the following pages was pre- 
pared and delivered in the form of five lectures. The 
public eagerly listened, and many have suggested that 
they be put in pamphlet form. That suggestion is 
now complied with, and it is hoped that the wider 
distribution of the matter contained in the pamphlet 
will open many eyes to the truth, as God has placed it 
in His Word. 

Yours in the hope of the gospel, 

WiivUS F. Jordan. 

Urich, Missouri, March, IQ15. 



Lecture One 

THE ORIGIN AND LENGTH OF ALL GENTILE 
WORLD GOVERNMENT. 

We will first read Daniel 2: 31-45 and 7: 1-27, and 
as a text for each of the five lectures we will use 1 
Chron. 5 : 22 : ''For there fell down many slain, be- 
cause the war was of God." 

The conflict now raging in Europe has nothing like 
it in history. In seven respects, at least, it is different 
from any war in the history of this world : 

1. It is estimated that 15,000,000 men are at the 
various battle fronts, or in the training camps. And 
men over there declare that the war has not yet 
(March, 1915,) begun, but will begin about May first. 

2. The battles last for days, weeks, and even months. 

3. In the eight months' conflict so far no decisive 
result has been gained for either side. Its only result 
so far apparent is seen in the appalling number of lives 
sacrificed, the prodigious amount of money squan- 
dered, the untold misery and suffering for men, and 
especially the women and children, with the imminent 
possibility of great famine and pestilence in the spring 
and coming hot summer months. 

4. Never before did human ingenuity and science 
contribute so much to the service of suffering and 
death. Verily the pale-faced rider on the black horse 
is abroad in the land, on the sea, in the air, and death 
and hades follow after him. 

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5. The awful conflict is among the so-called Chris- 
tian nations. Is Christendom, Christ's supposed king- 
dom on earth, going to be shot to pieces ? 

6. It is being waged not only on earth, but on the 
sea, under the sea, and in the air. 

7. Heretofore it was Jews against Gentiles, Moham- 
medans against so-called Christians, Catholics against 
Protestants, English against French, Russian against 
Turks, but now they bite, tear, and devour one another, 
thus fulfilling the Bible intimation of the beast-like 
disposition of all men and governments without God 
and without Christ in the world. 

Consider this question. Are those governments and 
nations so hypocritical, in pretending to be Christian, 
when they are not; so pharisaical in their loud, self- 
righteous boastings; so wicked in their methods of 
oppressing weaker peoples; in reality so Christless 
that we may consider this great war to be the result 
of God's permissive will, in that He is now bringing 
them into judgment? 

Here is a quotation from the Springfield, Missouri, 
Republican, of Sept., 1914: 

''The world is now stupefied. People are asking 
questions. Writers who can tell what this fearful por- 
tent means, who can throw light on the great funda- 
mental problems of the race, and can give some hint 
as to its destiny, will have an attentive and even 
anxious hearing. 

"Men [and the preachers] said the world was grow- 
ing better and better, the arming of the nations in- 
sured peace ; and now some foolish ones are beginning 
to say that perpetual peace will follow the present 



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European war. But the Bible says the world will 
grow worse and worse; that there shall be 'wars and 
rumors of wars' right up to the end ; that Armageddon 
will be fought by all the nations o£ the earth at the 
same time just before the Lord comes back. 

''The masses are losing confidence in their former 
leaders of thought. They have found their opinions to 
be unreliable. People will now give a glad hearing 
to writers who can throw light on present-day condi- 
tions. They want the truth now ; they wish to know 
now." 

Verily, the Springfield, Missouri, Republican must 
own a Bible, and has certainly read it. 

In my judgment, the Bible alone can throw light 
on present-day problems. It clearly foretells the great 
European war, how disastrous it will be, and just what 
it will accomplish; that it will result in the organiza- 
tion of a great confederacy of the nations, and that 
then the whole world, with a deluded Church, will 
settle down in the false behef that, at last, we have ob- 
tained universal, and perpetual, peace. The Bible 
further declares that the supposed peace will be of 
short duration, that it will be suddenly taken from the 
earth; for the confederated nations will blaze up 
against each other and fight the great conflict all over 
again ; that three of them will be annihilated in the 
second great conflict, and that the rest will be pre- 
pared for, and come up to, Armageddon, the last great 
war this earth will ever see; for they will all be 
destroyed at the hands of Jesus Christ at His coming. 

Consider an introductory word on the two Scrip- 
tures cited at the beginning of this lecture : The first 



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relates and interprets the great dream image vision of 
Nebuchadnezzar, the great Babylonian monarch. The 
latter relates and interprets the great wild beast image 
vision of Daniel the prophet. These passages do not 
present two different things, but the one event seen 
from two different viewpoints. First, Nebuchadnezzar 
sees the times of the Gentiles in great outward splen- 
dor and glory, and, second, Daniel, as God's prophet 
and man, sees all Gentile power and governments from 
their inward character and disposition, and unfalter- 
ingly pronounces them beast like. 

This great double scripture has its own key in Dan. 
2 : 28, "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth se- 
crets and maketh known unto the king what shall be 
in the last days" — the time for the final fulfillment of 
this beast image vision of the times of the Gentiles. 
It seems that the commentators and preachers have 
never seen this key verse. We propose to use it in 
these lectures. Our subject will be discussed under 
various subheads, the first of which is 

The Origin and Length o£ All Gentile Govern- 
ments. 

This thought is embraced in that meaningful New 
Testament phrase, *'The times of the Gentiles." The 
term Gentiles implies the term Jews or Israelites. The 
Bible gives the idea of permanency to Israel, but of 
transitoriness to the Gentiles. It sets forth a fore- 
ordained and eternal purpose of God through Israel, 
and the Gentiles as only tributary to the accomplish- 
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proceed with these lectures. It may be noted under 
the following particulars : 

1. Israel only is the divinely chosen and intended 
nation. Deut. 32 : 8 is a scripture of far-reaching im- 
port : **When the Most High divided to the nations 
their inheritance, when he separated the sons of 
Adam [at the confusion of tongues at the tower of 
Babel — Gen. 11 : 1-9], he set the bounds of the people 
[nationally] according to the number of the children 
of Israel." And yet at that time Israel was not in 
existence, except in the divine mind and purpose. So 
every Gentile nation exists in its time and turn, be- 
cause of its relation to Israel, and ministers to the ac- 
compHshment of Jehovah's purpose through them. 

2. All Gentile nations to end, but Israel to have a 
perpetual existence. Jer. 30: 11, ''Though I make a 
full end of all the nations whither I have scattered 
thee, yet I will never make a full end of thee." Other 
scriptures declare the same thing. 

3. Israel is, therefore, the chosen and called nation 
and placed in the land of Palestine, there hedged in by 
the law of Moses ; there to remain, if obedient, but, if 
not, to be plucked out of the land, yet not to perish, 
though in a long, world-wide dispersion. Notwith- 
standing their sin to be put back in their land in the 
last days, there to undergo the great tribulation, 
which will prepare the remnant among them to accept 
Christ at His coming. Mat. 23:39." Their restoration 
will involve the overthrow of all Gentile world govern- 
ment, thus putting an end to the times of the Gen- 
tiles. Under this head consider 

Amos 9:8-11, ''Behold, the eyes of Jehovah God 



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are upon the sinful kingdom [of Israel], and I will 
destroy it from off the face of the earth ; save that I 
will not utterly destroy the house of Israel, saith Je- 
hovah God ; for I will command, and I will sift the 
house of Israel among all nations like as wheat is 
sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least [real] grain 
fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people 
shall die by the sword, which say the evil shall not 
overtake us. In that day [when Israel's worldwide 
dispersion is about to end] I will raise up the tab- 
ernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the 
breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his ruins, and 
build it as in the days of old." Compare Acts 15: 
13-18, where it is distinctly declared that David's tab- 
ernacle, the Israelitish kingdom, is to be re-established 
when God gets through visiting the Gentiles, as He is 
doing during this entire Church dispensation, not to 
convert the world, or to save all the Gentiles, but "to 
take out of them a people" for the name of His Son. 
The Church will not be completed — all taken out from 
among the Gentiles, until the return of the Lord 
Jesus ; hence the rebuilding of the Israelitish nation 
again is intimately connected with the Lord's return. 

Hosea 3:4, 5, "For the children of Israel shall 
abide many days [years it has proven to be] without 
a king, and without a prince, and without a sacri- 
fice, and without an ephod, and without a teraphim. 
Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and 
seek Jehovah their God and David their king, and shall 
fear Jehovah and his goodness in the last days." 

Here it is positively declared that they are to do 
three distinctly separate things in the last days: 



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Return to Palestine, 

Seek Jehovah their God and David their king, 

Fear Jehovah and His Goodness. 

Hence here is their restoration, their conversion, 
and their service — all in the last days. And these great 
movements will shake all nations to their very founda- 
tions : 

1. The long-drawn-out and world-wide dispersion 
of Israel is to end in their restoration to Palestine, and 
their conversion to Christ when back in the land. 

2. Thus David's tabernacle, the Israelitish kingdom, 
is to be re-estabHshed among the nations once more; 
and, 

3. The great dream beast image vision of Nebuchad- 
nezzar and Daniel, as outlined in Dan. 2 and 7, is to 
be fulfilled — all in the last days, Dan. 2 : 28. 

Ezek. 21:24-27 is another pivotal passage: "Thus 
saith Jehovah God, Because you [Zedekiah, king when 
Nebuchadnezzar took Judah captive for the seventy 
years,] have made your iniquity to be remembered in 
that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all 
your doings your sins do appear; because you are 
come to remembrance, ye shall be taken by the hand 
[of Nebuchadnezzar's arm.y]. And thou, profane 
wicked prince of Israel [Zedekiah their last king], 
whose day is come, when your iniquity shall have an 
end. Thus saith Jehovah God: Remove the diadem, 
and take off the crown ; this shall no longer be the 
same; exalt him that is low, abase him that is high. 
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it [the Israelitish 
kingdom] ; and it shall be no more, until he come 
v^^hose right it is, and I will give it to him." Note 



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the threefold repetition of the word ''overturn," thus 
indicating that the IsraeHtish nation would not go all at 
once. Now there were just three overturnings of that 
kingdom. First, in the captivity of "the ten lost 
tribes," the Northern kingdom, sometimes called 
Ephraim in the prophetic word. Second, the captivity 
of the Jews the seventy years in Babylonia and Medo- 
Persia. Third, the present world-wide dispersion by 
the Romans in A. D. 70. The one who comes and is 
to receive it — He whose right it is — is the Lord Jesus 
Christ at His second coming. 

In its overturn by the Romans, in A. D. 70, was ful- 
filled the Saviour's word as recorded in Luke 21 : 20- 
24, "And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed 
with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is 
nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee into the 
mountains; and let them which are. in the midst of 
it depart out, and let not them which are in the coun- 
tries enter thereunto; for these be the days of ven- 
geance, that all things that are written may be ful- 
filled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to 
them that give nurse in those days ! for there shall be 
great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. 
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall 
be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem 
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times 
o£ the Gentiles be fulfilled." 

Paul, in Romans 11:25, declared "that blindness 
in part is happened unto Israel until the" full number 
from among th'e Gentiles, foreknown and foreor- 
dained of God, has been brought into the Church. 
This will be at the end of this dispensation when the 



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Church complete in the divinely intended number of 
members, will be taken up to meet the Lord in the air. 
Then the blindness, now upon Israel in part, will lift, 
and, the times of the Gentiles being ended, they will 
no longer be trodden down of the nations, but shall 
have their own ''place and nation" once more. 

The passages so far noted show the origin of Gen- 
tile times to have begun in B. C. 586 under Nebuchad- 
nezzar, re-emphasized in A. D. 70, under the Romans, 
to consist of an over lordship of Palestine, Jerusalem, 
and all Israel, and to end with the second coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ and the restoration and conver- 
sion of Israel. 

The character and course o£ all Gentile world 
government will now be considered. The Word of 
God unfalteringly declares them to be beastly, tyran- 
nical, despotic, persecuting. It is very remarkable 
that the insignia of every Gentile government is some 
animal, serpent, beast, eagle, or dragon. Israel's in- 
signia was always a vine or a branch. 

The rise, progress, character and end of all Gentile 
world government is clearly outlined in God's book, 
the Bible. Let us give attention to 
The Dream Beast Image Vision of Daniel 2 and 7. 

Dan. 7:2, 3, reads, "Daniel spake and said, I saw 
in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds 
strove upon the great sea, and four beasts came up 
from the sea, diverse one from another." The sea 
in prophecy represents the mass of mankind in com- 
motion and war. See Mat. 13:47; Rev. 13:1; 17: 
15. Four is the world's number. Out of commotion 
and war the "sea" would produce four great beasts in 
succession, each one diverse from its predecessor. 



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Verse 17 defines the beasts as four kings and king- 
doms which shall arise out of the earth, while verse 23 
defines the fourth beast as ''the fourth kingdom upon 
earth." Then the three preceding beasts must have 
been the three preceding kingdoms. 

The Four Beasts Discovered and Located. 

Dan. 7 : 4 declares the first beast to be Babylonia 
under Nebuchadnezzar. "The first beast was like a 
lion, and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings 
thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the 
earth, and made to stand upon the feet as a man, and 
a man's heart was given unto it." Compare Dan. 2: 
Z7 , 38, where Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's 
dream image : ''Thou, O king, art a king of kings ; for 
the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, 
strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of 
men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of 
heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made 
thee ruler over them all. Thou art the head of gold." 
The first beast was, therefore. Babylonia, the first 
great world-wide monarchy, and the one which began 
the times of the Gentiles in 586 B. C. Then the re- 
maining three beasts must likewise be universal mon- 
archies, and each would continue the despoiling and 
trampling down of Israel. See Zech. 1 : 18, 19, where 
"four horns," or four universal kingdoms, are de- 
clared to be the ones which have "scattered Judah, 
Israel, and Jerusalem." 

Dan. 7 : 5 declares the second beast to be the Medo- 
Persian empire, which overthrew Babylonia under 
Belshazzar, as described in the fifth chapter. The 



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verse reads: "And, behold, another beast, a second, 
like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it 
had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of 
it. And they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much 
flesh." Compare Dan. 2 : 39. One paw of this bear 
being lifted up means that the Persians were stronger 
than the Medes, as Austria is stronger than Hungary. 
The three ribs between its teeth represents the three 
conquered dominions, Susiana, Lydia, and Asia Minor. 
The eighth chapter of Daniel represents the Medo- 
Persian empire by the ram with two great horns. 

Dan. 7 : 6, with 2 : 39 and 8 : 19-26, describes the 
third beast as the world empire of Macedonia, or 
Grecia, under Alexander and his four generals. Dan. 
7 : 6, reads, ''After this I beheld, and lo, another beast 
like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four 
wings of a fowl. The beast also had four heads ; and 
dominion was given unto it." Dan. 8 : 20-22 explains : 
"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the 
kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the 
king of Grecia ; and the great horn between his eyes is 
the first king. Now that being broken, whereas four 
stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of 
the nation, but not in his [Alexander's] power." The 
four wings denote the marvelous rapidity of Grecian 
conquests under Alexander. His kingdom, following 
his death, was divided by his four generals into Syria, 
Egypt, Macedonia, and Asia Minor. The notable horn 
between the goat's eyes was Alexander the Great. The 
little horn was Antiochus Epiphanes. 

Notice the moral character of the times of the Gen- 
tiles as so far seen: It is always beastly. "The lion 



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devours, the bear crushes, the leopard springs upon 
its prey." Do not forget that England is now the lion, 
and Russia is the bear. 

The Horrible Fourth Beast 

which is to continue in some form right up to the sec- 
ond coming of Jesus Christ. Dan. 7:7 introduces it. 
Remember that Daniel was given a special vision of 
this beast. He says, "After this I saw in the night 
visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful, and ter- 
rible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron 
teeth : it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped 
the remainder [what was left of the preceding em- 
pires] with its feet. And it was diverse from all the 
beasts which were before it." This has announced the 
beast in general. Now the prophet goes more into de- 
tail, and proceeds to speak of its development and 
characteristics as they will appear in the last days. He 
continues the description : 

"And it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, 
behold, there came up among them a little horn, 
before whom there were three of the ten horns 
plucked up by the roots ; and, behold, in this horn 
were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speak- 
ing great things." 

Verse 19: "Then I would know the truth of the 
fourth beast which was diverse from all the others, 
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and 
his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, 
and stamped the remainder with its feet. And of the 
ten horns that were in his head, and of the other 
which came up, and before which three fell; even of 



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that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very 
great things, whose look was more stout than his fel- 
lows." 

Verse 23 : ''Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be 
the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse 
from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, 
and shall tread it down and brake it in pieces. And 
the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that 
shall arise; and another shall rise after them; and 
he shall be diverse from the first ten, and he shall 
subdue three of the ten kings. And he shall speak 
words against the Most High, and shall wear out the 
saints of the Most High, and think to change times 
and laws, and they shall be given into his hands for a 
time [one year], and times [two years], and the di- 
viding of time" [one-half a year]. 

Dan. 2 : 40 — "And the fourth kingdom shall be 
strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces 
and subdueth all : and as iron that breaketh all these, 
shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas, thou 
sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and part 
of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall 
be in it of the strength of iron, forasmuch as thou 
sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the 
toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, 
so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly 
brittle [or weak]. And whereas thou sawest iron 
mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves 
with the seed of men [the union of Church and state], 
but they shall not cleave the one to the other, even as 
iron is not mixed with clay." 



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These scriptures clearly teach 

1. That the fourth beast kingdom would be very 
strong, and yet very weak — iron and clay. History 
tells only of one empire as *'The Iron Kingdom" with 
''The Iron Legions." Every school boy ought to know 
this to be The Roman Empire. In that empire we 
have the iron — the imperial, and the clay — the popu- 
lar, wills. They would govern, yet clash, and, finally, 
seek to destroy each other. 

2. That ''they shall mingle themselves with the seed 
of men, but they shall not cleave one to the other." 
In that empire only there was a supreme effort made 
to establish and perpetuate the union of Church and 
state, 'but the Reformation broke it up. When the 
pagan government of the Caesars was overthrown in 
A. D. 476, the papal system of Catholicism ascended 
that same throne and ruled that same "Holy Roman 
Empire" for 1,260 years. Even to-day she controls mil- 
lions within the territory of that ancient fourth king- 
dom. 

3. This fourth beast kingdom was to exist in some 
form right up to the Lord's return. Look at Dan. 7: 
9-14, where Christ is declared to come in the clouds 
of heaven, a phrase never used except in relation to 
the second Advent, and where it is declared that He 
receives the everlasting kingdom at that time, when 
this fourth beast is destroyed and given to the burn- 
ing flame. Though this empire was to exist to the 
second coming of Christ it was to be in diversified 
forms. 

(1.) It was to rise, progress, and unify itself, sub- 



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duing the whole earth, tread it down and break it in 
pieces. It did. 

(2.) It was to divide into the legs of Nebuchad- 
nezzar's dream image. It did. There was the West- 
ern Roman Empire with the City of Rome as its capi- 
tal. This empire fell in A. D. 476. There was also 
the Eastern Roman Empire, with Constantinople as 
its capital, which fell in 1453 A. D. to the Saracens, 
the progenitors of the Turkish Empire. 

(3.) Then some time after 476 and 1453 A. D. 
it was to again divide into a ten toe, or ten nation 
confederacy, or condition. The feet condition was 
to follow 1453 A. D., and the ten toe confederacy was 
to be the last form of the Roman Empire when it 
should be suddenly smitten by the Lord Jesus Christ 
in His second Advent as the stone falling suddenly out 
of heaven. 

4. This ten nation confederacy could not precede 
the leg condition ; hence the God of heaven did not set 
up His kingdom at the first Advent. Compare Dan. 
7:9-14 with Luke 19:12-15 and Rev. 17:12, where 
John, who wrote the Revelation in A. D. 96, posi- 
tively declares that "the ten horns which thou sawest 
are ten kings which have received no kingdom yet, 
but receive power as kings one hour [a short time] 
with the beast," or at the same time as the beast, the 
ruler over the ten nation confederacy. "These have 
one mind, and shall give their power and strength to 
uphold the beast." Here then is the startling revela- 
tion of God's Word. The beast, as both the empire 
and its last ruler, is to come back again. The Roman 
Empire is to be reborn under a confederacy of ten 



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nations within the territory of that ancient fourth 
kingdom. And this is not all which we may now 
begin to see. The ten nation confederacy will fall 
out among those nations, and another gigantic 
struggle will take place, and the great European 
war will be all fought over again ; 

Daniel's Eleventh and Little Horn 

"whose look was more stout than his fellows" plucks 
up three of the ten horns *'by the roots." The ten 
nation confederacy gives place to a seven nation con- 
federacy. This is to be the condition of the Holy 
Roman Empire when Jesus is revealed from heaven 
for its destruction, and to set up His own kingdom 
for the thousand years. Compare 2 Thess. 2:1-12 
with Luke 19:12-15. 

5. We have said the ten nation form could not ma- 
terialize before A. D. 476 and 1453 ; for the two legs 
of the beast empire were in the way. The confeder- 
acy has not materialized since 1453 because the Turk- 
ish Empire has been in the way, and 

6. It now appears that Turkey is about to be re- 
moved out of the way, and 

7. The great European war will, probably, so im- 
poverish the nations now engaged in it, and those 
who are yet within the territory of the old Roman 
Empire, that, when the great war is over, the empire 
will be revived in the ten nation form. This will of 
necessity involve the total destruction of the Turkish 
Empire, the ascendancy of the Jewish question, their 
restoration to Palestine, and the recognition of the 
pope in his then regained temporal power — the beast 
over the Reborn Holy Roman Empire. 



Lecture Two 

THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13:1.10, AND THE 
TIME OF HIS DESPOTISM. 

In his book, *'The Prophet Daniel," A. C. Gaebelein 
says, on page 27, regarding Nebuchadnezzar's great 
image: ''The great image, the form of a man, is the 
prophetic image of the times of the Gentiles. That an 
image of a man was chosen, an image of great dimen- 
sions, is significant. In the New Testament, the 
Apostle Paul speaks of 'man's day,' 1 Cor. 4:3, see 
margin. Man's day describes the times of the Gen- 
tiles, and it is still Man's Day, and Man's Day will 
continue until the Lord's Day begins." 

Again, on page 29, he writes of the fourth beast 
kingdom as follows : "The fourth monarchy during 
the times of the Gentiles is represented by iron ; it 
is the iron kingdom, Rome. This monarchy is de- 
scribed in one point of superiority : it is to be strong. 
For as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, 
so this kingdom shall break in pieces. This is a per- 
fect description of that strong empire of Rome. 
Equally clear is it that that kingdom was divided into 
two parts, represented in the two legs of Nebuchad- 
nezzar's image. It was divided into the East Roman, 
and West Roman Empires. The legs were the longest 
parts of the image, and by it the fact is represented 
that this Roman empire was to have a longer existence 
than any of the preceding ones. Iron and clay com- 
pose the feet. The last form of Gentile world power 

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is represented by the toes, ten kingdoms in the Roman 
empire, and they are of iron and clay, which do not 
mix. 

''Notice the important truth brought out in the com- 
position of this dream image. It tells of deterioration. 
From the most precious metal, gold, it goes down to 
silver, brass, iron, and iron and clay. This surely does 
not tell of progress and improvement in the affairs of 
the times of the Gentiles. The second is inferior to 
the first. The word 'inferior' means earthly. The 
third, t;oo, is inferior to the second, and the fourth is 
only superior by its brute force and power to crush. 
According to the modern day conceptions of the times 
of the Gentiles this image should have been con- 
structed in this wise: First a head, composed of the 
meanest, good-for-nothing stuff, earth mixed with par- 
ticles of iron. Gradually the clay gives way and be- 
comes iron, the inferior parts are expelled. Then the 
refining process continues, and iron is changed to 
brass, and brass to silver; then coming to the nine- 
teenth century, and the great twentieth century, with 
its civilization, we reach the fine gold. Well, this is a 
dream, too, but not of God, but the dream which the 
father of lies has inspired. Nebuchadnezzar's dream 
is of God, and gives the deterioration going on in the 
times of the Gentiles. 

"The ten toes of iron and clay represent the final 
form of the times of the Gentiles. They are typical 
of ten kings. Thus Daniel interprets the ten toes, for 
he said in 2:44, 'In the days of these kings.' In 
chapter seven we find an additional vision concerning 
the future of the last monarchy, the Roman empire. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 25 

The fourth beast has ten horns, and the ten horns are 
ten kings. Finally, if we turn to our New Testa- 
ment book of prophecy. Rev. 17: 12, we find the ten 
horns and the kings they represent there. 'And the 
ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have 
received no kingdom yet [A. D. 96], but receive power 
as kings one hour with the beast.' But has this di- 
vision of the fourth monarchy been reached? Have 
we anything in history which corresponds to the ten 
toes in the dream image, and the catastrophe which is 
connected with it? The Roman Empire, as such, does 
not exist at all. Europe, the greater part of which 
with Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, 
composed the Roman Empire is in a divided condition. 
The iron and the clay are there. 

"The iron represents the monarchial form of gov- 
ernment. We have 'the great powers,' kings and em- 
perors ruling within the territory of the Roman 
world. But what does the clay represent? Clay is 
of the earth. It stands for that which does not be- 
long to the great statue at all, a foreign ingredient 
brought in. The metals represent monarchies, but the 
clay stands for democratic rule, the rule of the people. 
This is exactly what we behold in our day. There is 
a strong current towards democracy, the rule by the 
people, the exaltation of the people. Socialism and 
its kin. Anarchism, are looming up on all sides. The 
Roman Empire will soon be revived once more, and 
in it there will be ten kingdoms in which the clay will 
be prominently present. We see indications of this ; 
for the people are more and more dictating to their 
rulers ; the kings are ruled over by the popular ele- 



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ments. The ten toe kingdoms of the empire have 
never existed. It must first be revived and then we 
will see the ten nation confederacy. How this is to be 
brought about, we do not know, but we see indica- 
tions on all sides that such a condition will soon be 
reached." 

Mr. Gaebelein wrote the above about five years ago. 
Then he could not see how the ten nation confederacy 
within the bounds of the old Roman Empire was to 
be brought about. In all probability the present great 
European war, now raging within the territory of that 
empire, will produce the great confederacy — the Re- 
vived Roman Empire. 

The Bible shows the fourth beast empire to have its 
revival shortly before Jesus returns to earth, and to be 
utterly broken down by Him at that time. 

In Rev. 12 Satan is cast out of the heaven of the air 
into which Christ catches up His true Church, as dis- 
tinctly taught in Luke 14:14; 20:34-36; 21:34-36; 
John 14:3; 1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 
Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3: 10, and other passages. If you 
wish to understand how Satan can have access to God, 
until Jesus comes back and casts him down, read Job 
1 and 2 with Zech. 3. Being cast out of the aerial 
heaven, as in Rev. 12, he comes down to earth, ''hav- 
ing great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a 
short time" left until Jesus, as the Strong Man (Mat. 
12:29), will bind him with the great chain. Rev. 20: 
1-3. Full of "great wrath" Satan, and not John as 
the Authorized Version translates in Rev. 13:1, stands 
upon the seething war-torn Gentile sea and calls up his 
last great Masterpiece, the Revived Roman Empire 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 27 

with the pope's temporal power duly recognized and 
upheld by the ten confederated nations. This is em- 
phatically the beast of the book of Revelation and the 
closing years of the times of the Gentiles. Now let us 
read about that revival as foretold. 

The Beast of Revelation 13:1-10. 

"And he [Satan cast out of heaven as in chapter 12] 
stood upon the sand of the sea [the war-tossed Gen- 
tile world], and caused a beast [the old Roman Em- 
pire] to rise up out of the sea [possibly at the close 
of the present great European war], having ten horns 
[the now desired coming great confederacy of ten na- 
tions], and seven heads [see Rev. 17:9-13], and on 
his horns ten diadems [the ten nations will all have 
crowned kings], and upon his heads names of blas- 
phemy. And the beast was like unto a leopard [the 
former Macedonian or Grecian Empire], and his feet 
like those of a bear [the Medo-Persian kingdom], and 
his mouth as the mouth of a lion [the Babylon- 
ian monarchy]. And the dragon [the old serpent, 
which is the devil and satan. Rev. 20:2] gave 
him his power, and his throne, and great author- 
ity. And one of its heads was as it had been 
smitten unto death, and his death-stroke was healed : 
and the whole earth wondered after the [revived] 
beast; and they worshiped the dragon, because he 
gave his authority unto the beast; and they wor- 
shiped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast, 
and who is able to war with him? And there was 
given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and 
blasphemies ; and there was given to him authority to 



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continue forty-two months. And he opened his mouth 
for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, 
and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heavens 
[the true church which was taken up into the air when 
Satan was expelled from it as in chapter 12]. And it 
was given unto him to make war with the [great tribu- 
lation] saints, and to overcome them ; and there was 
given to him authority over every tribe, and 
people, and tongue, and nation, and all that dwell on 
the earth shall worship him, everyone whose name 
hath not been written from the foundation of the 
earth in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been 
slain. If any man hath an ear, let him hear. If any 
man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth ; if any 
man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he 
be killed. Here is the faith and patience of the saints." 
From this great scripture, compared with others, we 
learn : 

1. The beast is the Revived Roman Empire under, 
first, a ten nation confederacy, and then, three of the 
ten being "plucked up by the roots," a seven nation 
federation. The beast here is also the last ruler of the 
ten, and the seven nation confederacy. 

2. The beast has seven heads, and ten horns. Rev. 
17 describes the beast again, and tells, us in verses 9 
and 10 that the heads are both mountains and kings, 
i. e., forms of government, that five of them "had 
fallen" by A. D. 96 when John was writing, and that 
"one is," but it passed away under the deathstroke in 
476 and 1453 A. D. ; and that the final beast-king 
over the ten, and seven, nation confederacies would 
be the seventh head. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 29 

3. Rev. 17: 8 declares that the beast — as the Roman 
Empire in all its diversified career^^was, and is not, 
and yet is," i. e., the empire was, but passed out of 
existence in A. D. 476 and 1453, but comes back 
again; and that its origin is from the bottomless pit 
and perdition its eternal destiny. 

4. When the beast as both empire and ruler "yet is," 
has been revived, it will continue "a short space," or 
only for a short time — "forty-two months." We will 
fully consider this time feature later on. 

5. Rev. 17 : 12 positively states that, when John 
wrote in A. D. 96, the ten kings had "received no 
kingdom yet," but will receive their power at the same 
time the revived beast receives his, and that their com- 
bined reign will only be for "one hour," a short time, 
the forty-two months. 

6. The composite character of the revived beast. It 
is like a leopard, a bear, and a lion. On verse 2, the Sco- 
field Reference Bible, in a footnote, says, "The three 
animals, leopard, bear, and lion are found in Dan. 7 :4- 
6 as symbols of the empires which preceded Rome, and 
whose characteristics all entered into the qualities of 
the Roman Empire: Macedonian swiftness of con- 
quest, Persian, tenacity of purpose, and Babylonish 
voracity." 

7. Verse three says that the Roman beast once re- 
ceived a deathstroke. Everybody said it was dead, but 
not so; it was healed; it lived again. Five of the 
seven heads had fallen by A. D. 96, the imperial head 
then was, but received its deathstroke in 476 and 1453 
A. D., and passed out of existence. The deathstroke 
to the imperial head is to be healed — there is to be an 



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emperor again, and I will show before these lectures 
are all delivered that he is to be the papal beast, with his 
temporal power regained, and upheld by the ten na- 
tions of his great confederacy. 

8. "And all the world wondered after the beast" — 
after his deathstroke is healed, after he is revived. 
And the papal beast, the last ruler over the ten, and 
then the seven, nation confederacy — the Revived Ro- 
man Empire — is to have authority over the whole 
earth for forty-two months, Jews, Gentiles, every na- 
tion, people, and tongue, being given into his hands 
together with "times and laws" which he shall think 
to change. Instead of the whole world being con- 
verted to Christ, and universal peace, just before He 
returns, all remaining on earth when the true Church 
is "caught up to meet the Lord in the air," will wor- 
ship the beast whose deathstroke was healed, and will 
wonder after the beast, saying "Who is able to war 
with the beast?" 

9. His great mouth for blasphemies against God, 
His name, His word, and His tabernacle, the true 
Church which has been taken to heaven as the time of 
the beast begins, if not before. Thank God for 1 
Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3:10, and the 
other passages containing this great promise to His 
people. 

Some Other Names by Which This Papal Beast, 

the Last Ruler Over the Revived 

Empire, Is Called in the Bible. 

1. "The Enemy and the Avenger." Psalm 8 : 2. 

2. "The Man of the Earth." Psalm 10: 18. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 31 

3. "King of Babylon." Isa. 14:4-17. 

4. "The Little Horn" Among the Ten. Dan. 7 : 8, 
19-26. 

5. "A King of Fierce Countenance." Dan. 8: 23-25. 

6. "The Wilfull King." Dan. 11:36-45. 

7. "The Abomination of Desolation," or the Abomi- 
nation that is to desolate the Holy Land. Dan. 12 : 
11 and Mat. 24: 15 with Mk. 13: 14. This desolator 
coming on the wing of abominations is referred to in 
Dan. 9:26, 27. 

8. 2 Thess. 2: 1-12 names him "The Man of Sin, 
the Son of Perdition," and tells of his terrible work in 
that part of the professing Church left when the true 
Church was taken to meet the Lord in the air. Com- 
pare Luke 17:22-37. 

9. 1 John 2 : 18 names him "The Antichrist." 

10. Rev. 11:7; 13:1-10; 14:9-12; 15:2; 16:2, 
10-14; all of 17; 19:17-21, and 20:4 calls him 
''The Beast." 



Lecture Three 

THE PRINCE THAT SHALL COME. 

The Bible gives the last ruler over the confederated 
empire one other name, in addition to the list at the 
close of the last lecture. Beyond a doubt it locates 
his nationality, what he will do, and how long his 
reign will be. We invite you to 

Daniel 9:24-27. 

"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, 
and upon thy holy city, to restrain transgression, and 
to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for 
iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, 
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint 
the holy of holies. 

"Know, therefore, and understand: From the 
going forth of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusa- 
lem unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, 
and sixty-two weeks. The street and the wall shall be 
built again, even in troublous times. 

"And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah 
be cut ofif, and shall have nothing, and the people of 
the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and 
the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a 
flood ; and even unto the end shall be war ; desolations 
are determined. 

"And he [the prince that shall come] shall make 
a firm covenant [or treaty of alliance] with the many 
for one week : and in the midst of the week he [the 

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FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 33 

prince that shall come J shall cause the sacrifice and the 
oblation to cease ; and upon the wing of abominations 
shall come one [the prince that shall come] that 
maketh desolate; and even unto the full end shall 
wrath be poured out upon the desolator." Compare 
Dan. 11:36-45, where "the wilful king," this same 
"prince that shall come" reaches his end with none to 
help him. 

It behooves us to correctly interpret this great scrip- 
ture of the seventy weeks introducing 

The Prince That Shall Come. 

1. What are the seventy weeks? Why say weeks? 
The Bible is a book of sevens. In one issue of "The 
Trestle Board," the following pertinent remarks were 
found : 

"The number seven is frequently found in the Bible. 
On the seventh day God ended His work, the seventh 
month Noah's ark touched the ground, and in seven 
days a dove was sent out. 

"Abraham pleaded seven times for Sodom. Jacob 
worked seven years for Rachel, mourned seven days 
for Joseph, and was pursued seven days by Laban. 

"A plenty of seven years and a famine of seven 
years were foretold in Pharaoh's dream, by seven fat 
and seven lean cows, and seven ears full and seven 
ears of blasted corn. 

"On the seventh day of the seventh month the chil- 
dren of Israel began a fast of seven days, and re- 
mained seven days in tents. Every seven years the 
land rested ; every seventh year all bondsmen were 
free, and the law was read to the people. 



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"In the destruction of Jericho, seven priests bore 
seven trumpets seven days. On the seventh day they 
surrounded the walls seven times, and at the end of 
the seventh round the walls fell. 

"Solomon was seven years building the temple and 
feasted seven days at its dedication. In the tabernacle 
were seven lamps and the golden candlesticks had 
seven branches. 

"Naaman washed seven times in Jordan. Job's 
friends sat with hirn seven days and seven nights, and 
offered seven bullocks and seven rams as an atone- 
ment." 

The book of Revelation is full of this sacred num- 
ber. There we read of seven angels, seven churches, 
the seven spirits of God, the seven seals, the seven 
trumpets, the seven personages, the seven thunders, 
the seven vials of wrath, the seven dooms, the ten 
horned and seven headed beast, and the seven new 
things. 

The Bible sometimes uses a week to represent seven 
years. It is so in this great scripture from Daniel. 
Gen. 29 : 27, 28 will illustrate the case. Jacob agreed 
to serve seven years for Rachel. He did so, and her 
father worked off Leah, the sore-eyed maiden lady, 
upon him. He took his father-in-law to task about 
the deal overnight, and he said to Jacob, "Fulfill her 
week, and we will give her to thee also for the seven 
years thou shalt yet serve with me." So seventy 
weeks of seven years each were determined upon 
Daniel's people and city from the time the decree to 
restore and build Jerusalem should be issued, which 
would be 490 full years. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 35 

2. Division of the weeks into seven, sixty-two, and 
one. 

(1.) The seven equal forty-nine years for the re- 
building of Jerusalem and her wall, even in times of 
trouble. The books of Nehemiah and Ezra tell of 
those troublous times. 

(2.) The sixty-two weeks of 434 years more, from 
the time city and wall should be finished, to Messiah 
the prince, who should be cut off and have nothing. 

(3.) Then the one week more of seven years from 
the crucifixion of Messiah. Here is the crux of this 
great prophecy. We will return to its consideration 
presently. 

3. When did the seventy weeks begin? Answer, 
"From the going forth of the word to restore and re- 
build Jerusalem." Let us make no mistake here. Can 
that date be discovered? The first chapter of Ezra 
tells how Jehovah stirred up Cyrus, king of Medo- 
Persia, to issue a decree to rebuild the temple: "The 
lord of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the 
earth, and he hath charged me to build him an house at 
Jerusalem, which is in Judea." This is not the decree 
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and its walls. It 
cannot begin the seventy weeks. 

The seventh chapter of the book of Ezra tells how 
Artaxerxes Longimanus also issued a decree, but it 
was not to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, so neither 
can it begin the seventy years. 

We next come to the second chapter of Nehemiah, 
which tells of the beginning of the seventy weeks. In 
the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus he 
gave commandment to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls. 



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This was 445 B. C, which may be located in history 
also. Nehemiah does not only mention the year, but 
says it was the middle of Nison, our March. We 
have now come to solid ground. The year 445 B. C, 
middle of March, begins the seventy years. 

Now it took the seven weeks of 49 years to restore 
and rebuild Jerusalem. 445 — 49=396, as the year 
when the sixty-two weeks begin, which were to ter- 
minate with Messiah the prince, but not at His birth, 
or baptism, but when He should be "cut off, and have 
nothing" — His crucifixion. Let us now work it out : 

(1.) Seven weeks of 49 years began in the middle 
of Nisan, our March, 445 B. C, and ended in 396. 

(2.) Then sixty-two weeks of 434 years more from 
396 B. C. These years expired to the very day with 
the so-called Triumphant Entry. In that same week 
Messiah was cut off and had nothing. Luke 19 gives 
the account of the Triumphant Entry. Verse 42 
properly rendered will read: "If thou hadst known 
even on this day" — the very day that ended the 62 
weeks of 434 years — "the things which belong to thy 
peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes." How 
remarkable the fulfillment ! In computing this time, 
remember that these Jewish years in prophecy were 
360 days each. 

4. The one remaining week of seven years. Let 
us again read verses 26, 27. "And after three score 
and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off and shall have 
nothing ; and the people of the prince that shall come 
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end 
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end war; 
desolations are determined. And he shall confirm a 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 1,7 

covenant with the many for one week; and in the 
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 
oblation to cease, and on the wing of abominations 
there shall be a desolator, even until the consumma- 
tion, and that determined shall wrath be poured out 
upon the desolator." From these verses we may see 

(1.) That Messiah is not cut off during, but "after 
three score and two weeks." The crucifixion is the 
first event after the 62 weeks. It was in that same 
week of the so-called Triumphant Entry. 

(2.) Next in order is the coming of "the people of 
the prince that shall come," and the destruction of "the 
city and the sanctuary" by them. Note the sharp dis- 
tinction in the passage : It does not say that the prince 
was to come at that time, but "the people of the 
prince that shall come." "The people" who came 
and burned Jerusalem and the temple were Romans. 
Their "prince" did not come at that time, but will yet 
come; hence in those pregnant words: "The people 
of the prince that shall come," we have the "little 
horn" of Dan. 7 and "the beast" of the book of Rev- 
elation, the last ruler over the Revived Roman Em- 
pire of the fourth beast. He will certainly be a Ro- 
man; for his "people" came and destroyed the city 
and the sanctuary in A. D. 70. As before stated, this 
was the second event to occur after the 62 weeks. 
Messiah's cutting off was the first. Between these 
two events there were at least Z7 years. Do you 
not see that Daniel's last week of seven years has 
been broken off from the great prophecy; for how 
could the crucifixion and the destruction of the city 
and the sanctuary occur in the one week of seven 



38 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

years when Z7 of them He between the two events? 
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the last week of seven 
years has been suspended from the rest of the seventy 
weeks, and yet awaits fulfillment. 

(3.) A great war, desolating all Judea, was to be in 
full swing when ''the people of the prince that shall 
come" would destroy the city and the sanctuary. His- 
tory describes that war which ended the then Jewish 
nation. But they are to be restored before the broken 
ofif last week of seven years can be fulfilled. 

It is plain to be seen that verse 26 is an indeter- 
minate period, even this entire dispensation in which 
God is visiting the Gentiles to take out of them a 
Church for His Son. With the crucifixion of Jesus 
Christ and the overthrow of the Jewish state the 
stream of prophecy quit flowing. As this parenthetical 
Church age nears its end, and the foreordained num- 
ber of the Church is complete, prophecy and God's 
dealings with His people Israel will be resumed. 
Prophecy demands that they shall be back in the land, 
the Bible declares their restoration, and the Zionist 
Congress has been slowly returning them for the last 
fifteen or twenty years. If the great European war 
shall destroy the Turkish Empire, as no doubt it will, 
then what to do with Palestine — it is a province of that 
empire now — and the Jews will be a momentous ques- 
tion. If the great war should result in forming the ten 
nation confederacy of the Revived Roman Empire, 
then the stage set for Daniel's last week of seven years 
will require Israel again in the land of Palestine. 
Think of it! All things shaping themselves, as when 
Jesus was here the first time. That world — Rome, 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 39 

Judea, Samaria, Galilee — which cut Him off so that 
He had nothing, to come back again, and to be judged 
and destroyed by Him. 

(4.) Now look once more at verse 27. *'And he shall 
confirm a covenant [or treaty of alliance] with the 
many [of Daniel's peoDle] for one week." How can 
he unless they are back in the land ? ' He confirms the 
treaty ''with the many," not with all. There will be 
the protesting remnant, and he will seek to destroy 
them. See Zech. 13:8, 9. 

The Zionist Congress and its purpose to restore the 
Jews is somewhat known, but it is largely in unbe- 
lief, as the Bible said it would be. Zephaniah 2: 1-2, 
"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O 
nation not desiring God. Before the decree [or treaty 
with the beast, the prince that shall come] bring forth, 
before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce 
anger of Jehovah come upon you." They are now 
returning in unbelief ; hence the treaty with the beast 
and his ten nation confederacy. 

Not only are they going back under the Zionistic 
movement, but Isaiah 18 says, that, as a result of great 
commotion among the nations, they are to be taken 
back by a great sea power in vessels of bulrushes or 
warships. This great chapter, the 18th of Isaiah has 
scarcely been noticed, even by a few. The first word 
of it is not "woe" as in the A. V., but "Ho," a word 
demanding attention, as our word, behold. We now 
read the chapter with explanatory remarks thrown in : 
"Ho to the land shadowed with wings [probably Eng- 
land], which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [pos- 
sibly a reference to Britain's Indian, or more espe- 



40 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

cially, her Egyptian possession], that sendeth ambas- 
sadors by the sea in vessels of bulrushes [or warships] 
upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a 
nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from 
their beginning, a nation meted out and trodden down, 
whose land the rivers [nations] have spoiled. In that 
time shall the present [the end-time remnant] be 
brought unto Jehovah of hosts of a people scattered 
and peeled, a people terrible from their beginning, to 
the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount 
Zion." Only one people has been "scattered and 
peeled," whose land the other nations have spoiled — 
the Jews. They are to be gathered up, when the great 
war is over, by the ambassadors of some nation be- 
yond the rivers of Ethiopia, and carried back in war- 
ships, etc. 

Now consider this news dispatch : 

It was found in the Kansas City Times of Dec. 8, 
1914. It was entitled, ''Palestine for Centuries the 
Shuttlecock of Nations." "Because England wants a 
buffer state east of the Suez Canal, and Russia finds 
it must do something for the Jews, the allied powers 
propose, if successful in the great war, the creation 
of an independent Palestine. Thus will the scheme of 
the New Zionists find an unexpected fulfillment. 
Should this scheme become a reality it will accomplish 
even more than has been hoped for by the Zionists, 
as the Jews who are planning a return to Palestine are 
known. They advocate the return of enough Jews 
to Palestine to give them the balance of political power 
there. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 41 

"Palestine has been the shuttlecock of more power- 
ful nations ever since its advent into history. Nothing 
could be more fitting now, than that it should be re- 
habilitated in the boundaries of Solomon, to live at 
the will of its creators" — Britain, France, and Russia. 

Jesus says they are to be in the land when He re- 
turns, and are to receive Him there with the national 
shout [Mat. 23:39], "Blessed is he that now cometh 
in the name of the Lord." 

In Rom. 1 1 : 25-28, Paul says they are to be in the 
land when Jesus returns to them as the "Deliverer who 
shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." 

So they are to be restored, and they are to be there 
when the papal prince, the beast, makes his treaty 
with "the many" of them to run for the seven years. 
But he cannot do so until the seventieth week of 
Daniel arrives for fulfillment. That treaty is to re- 
store their national government, and to protect them 
in their land for the seven years. 

What a far-reaching subject we have, therefore, 
under consideration, as students of God's Word and 
well-informed persons. May we give the more earnest 
heed to the things which we are now learning, lest at 
any time we should let them slip. 

5. One more thing in Dan. 9 : 27 — the time when the 
beast, the prince that shall come, breaks his treaty with 
the restored Israelites. We read again: "And in the 
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the 
oblation to cease," and shall place "the abomination 
that maketh desolate" in their temple at Jerusalem. 
What is that desolating abomination, that "wing of 
abominations"? Mat. 24:15; Dan. 12:11; Rev. 13: 



42 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

14, 15, and 2 Thess. 2:4 will tell you. It isn't any- 
thing but his own image, which his false prophet 
(Rev. 13:11-17) will have caused to be made, and 
which he will marvelously endow. This idol (Zech. 
11:16, 17) will be set in the temple at Jerusalem. 
The decree, that all bow the knee and worship it, and 
the beast through it, on pain of being beheaded (Rev. 
20: 4), will be proclaimed in Jerusalem and all Judea, 
and throughout the Gentile world also. Then the great 
tribulation of Rev. 3 : 10 and Rev. 7 will begin. Why 
should it be thought a thing incredible that this last 
ruler in the time of the Gentiles, this papal beast, this 
prince that shall come, this great man of sin, should 
set up his own image for all mankind to worship, 
when his people have always worshiped pictures, 
images, crucifixes, idols, saints, angels, apostles, John 
the Baptist, and the Mother of Jesus? 

When the treaty is broken by him "in the midst of 
the week," and his image is set up for all mankind to 
worship, then shall begin "the day of Jacob's trouble" 
(Jer. 30:4-11) : "The time of trouble such as never 
was since there was a nation, even to that same time" 
(Dan. 12 : 1) ; "great tribulation such as hath not been 
from the beginning of the world" (Mat. 24: 15-31) ; 
"great tribulation such as there hath not been the like 
from the beginning of the creation which God created" 
(Mk. 13: 14-27) ; "the hour of tribulation, the great 
one, which is to come upon the whole world" (Rev. 3 : 
10) ; and "the great tribulation" of Rev. 7. 

Again, we thank God for the promise that the true 
Church is to be kept from this awful period, by being 
taken to meet the Lord in the air. Rev. 3 : 10, and 1 
Thess. 4:13-18. 



; FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 43 

Some of the above passages speak of the days of the 
great tribulation being shortened. How so? The 
days of the whole seven years are the ones shortened. 
Instead of the full seven years being like the last half 
of the week, there is a difference ; for it is exactly 
in the middle of the week that the treaty is broken, and 
the beast's idol, or image, set up. The great tribula- 
tion is to be exactly three and one-half years, the last 
half of the week. Beginning at Jerusalem, it will 
overspread the whole earth; for "as a snare it shall 
come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
earth" (Luke 21:34-36). And authority over every 
tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation is to be given 
to the beast, this awful prince that shall come (Rev. 
13:7). Note the proof that the great tribulation is 
to be three and a half years, no more, no less. 

The Proof Submitted. 

1. Dan. 9:27. "But in the midst of the week he" 
breaks his treaty and sets up his image. (Rev. 13 : 14, 
15; Mat. 24:15; Dan. 12:11.) 

2. Dan. 7 : 25. "Times and laws are given into the 
little horn's hands for a time [one year], and times 
[two years], and dividing of time [an half a year]." 

You ask, "Where is the proof that time is one year, 
times two years, and dividing of time an half a year?" 
A legitimate question. Dan. 4 : 16, 23, 25, 32, contains 
the answer. History says that those "seven times" 
which passed over Nebuchadnezzar were exactly seven 
years. It is most significant to me, at least, that Nebu- 
chadnezzar, the first ruler in the times of the Gentiles, 
Jiadi this experience of just seven years, when he im- 



44 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

agined himself an ox, ate grass and crawled on his all 
fours like a beast. At the end of the seven years his 
reason returned, and he knew that "the Most High 
ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomso- 
ever he will." The little horn beast, the prince that 
shall come, the man of sin, a devil possessed insane 
man, the last ruler in the times of the Gentiles, is to 
likewise have a seven year's experience, in the which 
he will "deny both the Father and the Son" ( 1 John 2 : 
22), ruling the world with insane fury for seven years, 
and doing as he pleases for the three and an half 
years. By the time of his end he will learn the same 
lesson Nebuchadnezzar had to know. 

3. Dan. 12: 7. "How long shall it be to the end of 
these wonders" to occur during the great time of 
trouble? And the angel of the waters swears by the 
Everliving One that it shall be "for a time, times, and 
an half ; and when he [the beast] shall accomplish to 
scatter the power of the holy people, all shall be fin- 
ished." Here is the same dread three and an half 
years. 

4. Rev. 11:1, 2. During the last half of the seven 
years' reign of the beast the Zionist rebuilt temple at 
Jerusalem (verse 8), in which the image of the beast 
is to be set up, and the city itself is to be turned over 
to the Gentiles, "and the holy city shall they tread 
under foot forty and two months." Forty-two months 
at thirty days to the month is just three and one-half 
years. 

5. Rev. 11:3. Two witnesses are to prophesy, or 
preach in Jerusalem (verse 8) and all Judea for 1,260 
days, the 42 months, the three and an half years, the 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 45 

beast and his image are desolating Palestine and the 
whole earth with the abominations. 

6. Rev. 12 : 14 mentions "Time, times and half a 
time," the three and one-half years. The woman of 
this chapter is Israel which produces the man child: 
Christ and His true Church. Verse 5 reads, "And 
she brought forth a man child which was to rule all 
nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught 
up unto God and to his throne." Jesus as the Head 
was caught up there in His ascension at the beginning 
of this Church age, and the Church, as His body, is 
to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air at its close. 
The rule of the iron rod is the joint government of 
Christ and the Church in the next age, that of the 
kingdom. Now verse 14 : 

"And to the woman [Israel in the great tribulation] 
were given two wings of a great eagle [possibly the 
United States, as her national emblem is the eagle], 
that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 
where she is nourished for a time, times and half a 
time, from the face of the serpent." This flight fol- 
lows the expulsion of the serpent from the heaven of 
the air (verse 12), which expulsion marks the calling 
up of the Revived Roman Empire as in Rev. 13: 1, 
and then the breaking of the treaty with Israel by the 
beast "in the midst of the week" of seven years ; hence 
the "time, times, and half a time," the rest of the week, 
the full measure of the great tribulation, the same 
dread three years and an half. 

7. Rev. 12 again refers to the last half of the seven- 
tieth week. Following the catching up of the man child, 
the Church to meet the I^ord in the air, "the woman 



46 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place pre- 
pared of God, that they [who are they? Those who 
own "the great eagle"] should feed her there twelve 
hundred and sixty days" — the three and an half 
years. 

8. Rev. 13 : 5. The beast has authority — God's per- 
missive will — to continue forty and two months un- 
checked in his blaspheming, murderous, persecuting, 
great tribulation career. 

What Do We Now See? 

That all these dates are one and the same dread 
event, the great tribulation. It is begun by the beast 
openly breaking his treaty with the restored nation of 
Israel exactly in the midst of Daniel's seventieth week. 
This conclusion cannot be overestimated. It is ex- 
ceedingly important to grasp this fact. 

That week is the last seven years of the times of the 
Gentiles. It has been suspended from the rest of the 
great prophecy of the ninth chapter of Daniel. It 
cannot appear for fulfillment until the present great 
European war shall — possibly — bring about the Re- 
vived Roman Empire under the ten, and seven, na- 
tion confederacy which we have already described. 
The revival of that empire demands the restoration 
of the Jews to Palestine as a province of that ancient 
kingdom. Their restoration and its revival seems at 
hand, and that means that the departure of the Church 
to meet the Lord in the air, as indicated in 1 Thess. 4 : 
13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3: 10 and 12, is very im- 
minent. Therefore, it behooves each to inquire 
whether he is prepared to go in as in Mat. 25 : 10. 



Lecture Four 

PRESENT DAY INDICATIONS, OR THE REVIVAL 
OF ROMANISM. 

There are certain present-day indications that the 
seventieth week is near. We consider a few of them 
in this lecture. 

The Present Great War 

is one. This we have already considered in previous 
pages. Nothing more direct need be said now, except 
that it is being fought out within the bounds of the 
old Roman Empire, the kingdom of the fourth beast. 

The Revival of Romanism 

is one of the most portentous indications of the times. 
It may be clearly seen in the widespread apostasy in 
all Protestant denominations, and a general drifting 
toward Rome; the publicly announced constructive 
policy of the new pope, the subservient attitude of 
many of the governments of the present hour, all mak- 
ing advances toward the papal system, and that sys- 
tem in a receptive attitude. 

Our own President attends, with members of his 
cabinet, the annual Pan-American Thanksgiving mass 
in a Catholic church in Washington, D. C, thus per- 
mitting Catholic dignitaries to publish abroad that this 
government is, therefore, already Roman Catholic. I 
am told that Mr. Roosevelt began this custom, that 
Mr. Taft kept it up, and Mr. Wilson feels that it ought 
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48 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

to be kept up. Why do not Mr. Wilson and Mr. 
Bryan attend Thanksgiving service in their own Pres- 
byterian church where they worship at other times? 
Why does Mr. Wilson persist in keeping, as private 
secretary, a Jesuit Catholic whose sworn duty is to 
report to his master at Rome all that he sees and 
hears ? 

Consider this news dispatch in the Kansas City Star 
of Dec. 12: 'Xondon, Dec. 12, 1914.— Official an- 
nouncement is made of the appointment of Sir Henry 
Howard as British minister to the Vatican. Sir Henry 
is Great Britain's first permanent diplomatic represen- 
tative at the Vatican" in four hundred years. 

What has become of the Reformation in England 
and Europe? Where is that stalwart Protestantism 
that used to characterize the British Isles? It is even 
gone from these United States. Verily the pope is 
coming back into his own in all of so-called Christen- 
dom. How much longer will it be until he sits en- 
throned over the Revived Roman Empire, with the 
great ten nation confederacy at his feet, upholding him 
with their guns and bayonets, and withal signing a 
firm covenant with the Zionist Jews, to first place them 
in their own land, and then to protect them there, and 
then deliberately breaking it to finally seek to utterly 
annihilate them from ofif the face of the earth. For 
the present we leave the Revival of Romanism, and 
take up 

The Present Unrest 

and dissatisfaction of the people everywhere manifest, 
tending more and more to Socialism, revolution, and 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 49 

war. The people are dictating more and more to their 
rulers in Church and state, the iron and clay arrang- 
ing for that struggle which will shake the world to its 
foundations. 

Perhaps you do not know it, but God's Word says 
that — not the end of the world, but the end of this age 
or dispensation shall appear in the destruction of all 
the governments of the earth by the sword, and in 
the Bible the sword always means revolution, anarchy, 
universal war. Consider some of the scriptures which 
show that the times of the Gentiles shall end in such 
universal catastrophe as we are indicating: 

1. Isa. 65:12. ''Therefore, will I number you 
to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaugh- 
ter ; because when I called, ye did not answer ; when 
I spake, ye did not hear ; but did evil before my face, 
and did choose that wherein I delighted not." 

2. Isa. 66: 15, 16. "For, behold, the Lord will come 
with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to 
render his anger with fury, and his rebukes with 
flames of fire ; for by fire and by his sword will the 
Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord 
shall be many." 

3. Haggai 2 : 22. ''And I will overthrow the throne 
of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the 
kingdoms of the Gentiles : and I will overthrow the 
chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses, 
and their riders shall come down everyone by the 
sword of his brother." 

4. Jer. 25 is a specimen concerning total destruc- 
tion by the sword. The prophet says : "For thus saith 
Jehovah the God of Israel unto me. Take this winecup 



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of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, 
to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall 
drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the 
sword which I will send among them. All the 
kings of the north, far and near, one with another, 
and all the kingdoms o£ the world which are upon 
the face of the earth. Therefore, thou shalt say unto 
them. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel : 
Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise 
no more, because of the sword which I will send 
among you. For, lo, I begin to bring evil upon the 
city which is called by my name, and should ye be 
utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished, 
saith Jehovah ; for I will call for a sword upon all 
the inhabitants of the earth. Therefore, prophesy 
against them all these words, and say unto them, 
Jehovah shall roar from on high, and utter his voice 
from his holy habitation ; he shall give a shout, as 
those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabit- 
ants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the 
ends of the earth ; for Jehovah hath a controversy 
with all the nations. He will plead with all flesh ; 
he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith 
Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil 
shall go forth from nation to nation [as this great war 
has spread], and a great whirlwind shall be raised 
up from the coasts of the earth, and the slain of Je- 
hovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth, 
even to the other end of the earth; they shall not be 
lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, but shall be refuse 
upon the ground." 

Such destructive revolution, and war, leaving the 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 51 

dead unburied, will breed famine [as now in Europe], 
pestilence, and wild beasts. Now read Ezek. 14:21, 
which names God's four sore judgments: "The 
sword, the famine,, the pestilence, and the noisome 
beast to cut off man from the earth." 

And Jesus said, "Wars, famines, pestilences, earth- 
quakes in divers places (Mat. 24:6, 7), and upon the 
earth distress of nations, with perplexity, men's hearts 
failing them for fear [universal heart failure], and 
from looking after those things which are [then] com- 
ing on the earth" (Luke 21 : 25, 26). 

Paul said (1 Thess. 5:1-5) that when everybody, 
except a few "old pessimists" (?), would be saying, 
"Peace and safety," then sudden destruction and no 
escape ; while Jesus has told us that "as a snare shall 
that day overtake all them that dwell upon the face of 
the whole earth" (Luke 21 : 34-36). 

"And there shall be affliction such as was not since 
the beginning of the creation which God created" — 
affliction so terrific and so universal that eternity will 
never produce another such time (Mk. 13: 19). 

"And there shall be great tribulation such as was not 
from the beginning of the world," so severe that if Je- 
hovah did not shorten the time of the seven years no 
flesh could be saved (Mat. 24: 21, 22). 

While Dan. 12 : 1 says that "there shall be a time 
of trouble such as has never been since there was a 
nation," while Rev. 3 : 10 and the seventh chapter calls 
it "the tribulation, the great one." 

I have said that federation, or confederacy, is in 
the air and destined to become an accomplished fact in 
both state and Church, I have proven that the old Ro- 



52 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

man Empire is to be revived in, first, a ten, and shortly 
afterwards, a seven nation confederacy, and that the 
pope is to be its ruler, its final emperor. I have fur- 
ther intimated that the time for these things is at 
hand, and that, from the time of the organization of 
the ten nation confederacy, there v^ould be just seven 
more years until Jesus would descend to earth, in ter- 
rific power, to destroy the man of sin, the papal beast 
and his great seven nation confederacy. Now consider 
well these news dispatches which show the beginnings 
of the confederacy, the Revival of Romanism and the 
ascendancy of the pope: 

1. An extract from an editorial on *' International 
Special Privileges," found in the Kansas City Star 
of February 15, 1915: 

"Trade restrictions have been one of the chief 
causes of the great war. Austria felt the need of 
controlling the trade routes to the ^gean and Adriatic 
Seas. Russia has regarded it as intolerable that Tur- 
key at any moment might cut off her great wheat trade 
with the world that passes through the Dardanelles. 
Germany has long complained of its short sea coast. 
Mr. Jacob Schiff, of New York, stated the case when 
he said, 'War can only be made to cease entirely i£ all 
the nations o£ Europe could be organized into a 
United States of Europe, and if free trade were es- 
tablished throughout the world. In the first instance 
the extreme nationalism which has become so ram- 
pant during the past fifty years, and which has been 
more or less at the bottom of every war, would then 
cease to exist and prevail, and in the second event, 
namely, if free trade became established throughout 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 53 

the world, the necessity for territorial expansion and 
aggression would no longer be needed; for with the 
entire world open on equal terms to the commerce and 
industry of every nation, territorial possession would 
not be much of a consideration to any people.' " And 
who is this gentleman who argues for world-wide free 
trade, and a confederated United States of Europe, as 
the annihilator of war? Mr. Jacob Schiff, a Jew — 
paving the way for the treaty of alliance with Rome. 

2. A statement from Cardinal Gibbons, of the Ro- 
man Catholic Church, one of the pope's advisers. It 
was found in the Kansas City Times of Feb. 18, 1915 : 

''Baltimore, Md., Feb. 18.— That the scriptural 
prophecy of the conditions that shall prevail near the 
end of the world (it should have been age — world is 
never to end) seems to be in process of fulfillment, 
was the statement made by Cardinal James Gibbons, 
when commenting on the war news from Europe." 
Hundreds and thousands of men are beginning to 
conclude as Cardinal Gibbons has. 

3. Here is the most significant news dispatch yet. 
It was found in the Kansas City Star of Feb. 9, 1915, 
and reads as follows: 

"Rome, Feb. 9th. — Pope Benedict, in the few short 
months since he was chosen to the Holy See, has 
made remarkable progress in carrying out the long- 
cherished ambitions of Pope Leo XIII. His plans 
to establish diplomatic relations between the Vatican 
and practically all the great powers of the world seems 
certain of success. The influence he will thus possess 
when the papal claims to temporal power and sov- 
ereignty are submitted to the peace conference at 
the close of the great war will be admittedly great. 



54 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

"While Italy has offered these guarantees, the Vati- 
can never has accepted for the reason that Italy might 
at any time rescind them, whereas, with the guaran- 
tees made an international matter, there is little pos- 
sibility that any one nation might violate them. 

"The war, unquestionably, has aided the Vatican in 
obtaining these results. The war makes certain the 
establishment in the near future of diplomatic rela- 
tions between the Vatican and Turkey. The prom- 
ised resumption of diplomatic relations between the 
Vatican and France is regarded as a personal victory 
for the new pope. 

"The Vatican, in the past, had maintained a diplo- 
matic representative at Constantinople. He was not 
accredited to the Turkish government, but to the 
Catholic subjects of the Ottoman Empire. He com- 
municated with the government only through the 
French ambassador. With Turkey's entrance into the 
war against the Allies the French protectorate over 
Catholics in Turkey ceased. As neither Turkey nor 
the Vatican had any objections to direct negotiations 
the sultan at once received Monsignor Dolci in private 
.audience. At subsequent audiences arrangements 
were made with the Vatican for the elevation of the 
post at Constantinople from that of apostolic dele- 
gate to that of papal nuncio, or ambassador, and the 
sending by Turkey to the Vatican of an ambassador 
of its own. 

"The eventual resumption of diplomatic relations 
between France and the Vatican is now conceded to be 
a certainty. The negotiations have now progressed to 
a point where they are to be carried on openly. As a 
result of conversations carried on both at Bordeaux 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 55 

and Paris between Cardinal Ametti and the French 
ministry, it has been estabHshed that an unofficial rep- 
resentative of the French government is now to be sent 
to Rome until a basis can be established on which re- 
lations can be officially resumed. 

''Pope Benedict has already established friendly re- 
lations with Russia, and England has sent an am- 
bassador o£ its own accord [not waiting to be asked 
to]. No secret is made of the influence this will have 
in the carrying out of the pontiff's plan for a settle- 
ment of the papal claims at the coming conference 
of the nations, the release of the pope from his nomi- 
nal imprisonment and the resumption of open friendly 
relations with the Italian government." 

Not only are the governments of Europe, especially 
those called the Allies engaged in the great war, mak- 
ing overtures to the Vatican, as we have seen, but 
there are certain "signs of the times" which show how- 
things are going in this country — all tending toward 
Rome. We have spoken of how the present adminis- 
tration at Washington attends the annual Pan-Ameri- 
can mass in a Catholic church in the capital ; how the 
President persists in keeping a Jesuit Catholic as pri- 
vate secretary. There are many other indications of 
where things are drifting also, perhaps, the most sig- 
nificant of which is the effort now being engineered 
through to 

Throttle the Freedom of the Press. 

From the Protestant Magazine, February, 1915, I 
take the following: 

"A free press has justly been called 'the palladium 
of our liberties.' 



56 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

"An attack has been made upon the freedom of the 
press in two bills now pending in congress. One bill 
was introduced, Jan. 7, 1915, by Mr. Fitzgerald, of 
New York. The other was introduced Jan. 11, 1915, 
by Mr. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, and reads like one 
of the regulations for censorship in the Middle Ages. 
It runs thus : 

"A Bill to amend the postal laws. Be it enacted by 
the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in congress assembled, That 
whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of 
the postmaster general that any person is engaged in 
the business of publishing any scandalous, scurri- 
lous, indecent, or immoral books, pamphlets, pictures, 
prints, engravings, lithographs, photographs, or other 
publications which are, or are represented to be, a re- 
flection on any form of religious worship practiced, or 
held sacred by any citizens of the United States, it is 
hereby declared that the postmaster general shall 
make the necessary rules and regulations to ex- 
clude such matter from the mails. 

"Both of these bills estabhsh a censorship of the 
press, and place in the hands of one man, who is 
himself not elected by the people, but appointed by 
an executive officer, the absolute power to exclude 
from the mails any publication which in his opinion 
had violated certain provisions, without any oppor- 
tunity to try the case before a properly constituted 
court. 

"Such control of the press is arbitrary and tyran- 
nical, is most far-reaching in its effects, and would 
bring disaster upon the country. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 57 

"This attack upon the freedom of the press is made 
by Roman CathoHcs, and purely in the interest of 
Roman CathoHcs. They have put forward a move- 
ment during the last five years to secure such legisla- 
tion as this. The following conclusions may legiti- 
mately be drawn : 

"1. The demand for a change in the postal laws 
making the postmaster general the censor of the press 
has originated with Roman Catholics. 

''2. The agitation to secure this change in the postal 
laws has been carried forward continuously for five 
years by Roman Catholics. 

"3. The end sought by this change in the postal laws 
is the exclusion from the United States mails of such 
publications as are offensive to Roman Catholics. 

"4. The bills now pending in congress were intro- 
duced by Roman Catholics in response to the repeated 
demands of Roman Catholics. 

"5. This is a demand for special legislation by a 
special class, and for the benefit of a special class." 

What think ye, reader. Is it not time the American 
people were seeing these things ? You may now begin 
to comprehend the meaning of those fearful words 
from Rev. 13: "And there was given unto him au- 
thority over every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and 
kindred, and people" — for the last seven years, 
Daniel's seventieth week. 

These facts show which way the wind is now blow- 
ing, and what the near future has in store for this poor 
old world. Thanks be unto God for His oft-reiterated 
promise that the true Church of Christ is to be caught 
up to meet the Lord in the air about the time "the 



58 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

prince that shall come," the papal beast is again ele- 
vated over his great confederacy of nations and 
churches. Thus the true Church is to be kept from the 
great tribulation and the hand of the persecuting papal 
beast, while the Jews, and this Christless Gentile world 
are to accept him as their last king and god, and 
are to be given into his hands utterly and absolutely 
for the three full years and an half. 

The other day a tract on, "The War of the Nations 
and Its Place in Prophecy," came to my desk. I wish 
to quote from it as follows : 

''Never, since man was upon the earth, has there 
been internecine strife on so gigantic and destructive 
a scale, nor of so portentous a character, as the pres- 
ent war in Christendom. It marks the beginning of 
the 'time of the end/ as indicated in Dan. 8: 17 and 
12 : 9. But it is not yet Armageddon. 

''So little has dispensational truth been taught in 
the churches that a majority of those who profess and 
call themselves Christians, are densely ignorant as to 
God's revealed purposes, and do not understand 'the 
signs of the time' (Mat. 16: 3). 

"So far from the world growing better and better, 
through the spread of Christian ( ?) civilization and 
culture in thfe present dispensation, we are expressly 
told that 'evil men and seducers will wax worse and 
worse, deceiving and being deceived' (2 Tim. 3: 13), 
and that 'in the last days perilous times shall come ; 
for men shall be lovers of their own selves, boasters, 
blasphemers, false accusers, fierce, despisers of those 
that are good, traitors' (2 Tim. 3:1), and that 'in the 
last times some shall depart from the faith (instead of 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 59 

all the world coming to it), giving heed to seducing 
spirits and doctrines of demons' (1 Tim. 4:1). 

"From the books of Daniel and the Revelation we 
learn that, 'in the time of the end,' instead of a world 
set right by education and Christian ( ?) legislation, 
and a universal brotherhood of righteousness and 
peace, there will be an open revolt against the throne 
of God and the Lamb. The man of sin will head up 
this apostasy and finally gather his armies around Je- 
rusalem for the purpose of destroying the Jewish race 
at one dread stroke. And Jesus himself has positively 
declared that conditions on earth at His coming will 
be exactly as they were in the days of Noah and of 
Lot. 

"So clear and plain is the teaching of God's Word 
on these things, that the marvel is so few Christians 
understand. One explanation is that they seldom read 
the Bible, except in little selected portions which ap- 
peal to the emotions only ; nor must we forget that for 
nearly seventy years now there has been a growing 
conspiracy of unbelief in all the churches to discredit 
the Divine authority of the Bible. What are we to 
expect when theological professors, at training col- 
leges for ministers, teach their students, openly, to dis- 
card the Atonement, the Inspiration of the Bible, the 
Fall in Eden, the Personality of the Holy Spirit and 
also the Devil, that the Book of Revelation never was 
intended to be understood, and that there is no Judg- 
ment and no Hell. 

"It is not surprising, therefore, that, at a crisis in 
human affairs, which has no parallel in history, the 
hearts of many are 'failing them with fear, and from 



60 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

looking after those things which are coming on the 
earth' (Luke 21 : 26). And it is well that there should 
be this fear, rather than a stoutness of heart, which is 
to characterize the wilfully wicked, who, up to the last, 
will do wickedly, and will not understand (Dan. 12: 
10). Happy are those whose fears will drive them to 
seek and find refuge from the wrath of the Lamb." 



Lecture Five 

A SOLEMN WARNING AND THE CHRISTIAN'S 
ATTITUDE. 

We have before shown that Daniel 2 and 7 gives a 
prophetic outhne of the entire period of Gentile rule 
beginning with Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B. C. and 
ending with the second coming of Christ as the stone 
cut out of the mountains without hands. Jesus called 
this period of time "the times of the Gentiles," during 
which Israel is under Gentile domination. Daniel 2 
and 7 is history written in advance, as all prophecy is. 

From a comparison of these two great chapters, 
with Rev. 13 and 17, we have seen that the last phase 
of the fourth beast kingdom, i. e., the Roman Empire, 
is that of a ten, and then of a seven, nation federation, 
each having its own crowned king, yet all subject to 
the overlordship of one powerful head, the revived 
papal beast, the man of sin, the prince that shall then 
have come, the New Testament Antichrist. He makes 
a covenant, by treaty of alliance, with the Jews in 
Palestine. He says the treaty is for seven years, 
Daniel's seventieth week. But in the midst of the 
week he ruthlessly breaks the treaty, and for the re- 
maining three and an half years he becomes Israel's 
bitterest foe, stops their daily sacrifice, and claims di- 
vine honors in their temple at Jerusalem. Compare 
2 Thess. 2 : 1-12. Their refusal to bow the knee to his 
idol brings upon them the time of Jacob's trouble, and 
then upon them and the whole world, the great tribula- 

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62 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

tion, the time of trouble such as never was since there 
was a nation even to that same time. Compare Jer. 
30: 7; Dan. 12: 1 ; Mat. 24: 21, and their references. 

Before, however, this ten, and then the seven, nation 
confederacy, the Revived Roman Empire, could come 
into existence, it was foreseen, by painstaking Bible 
students, that "a gigantic international struggle 
must needs take place, and be succeeded by a great 
democratic social, political, and religious up- 
heaval." 

That great struggle is now on. The next step will 
be a conference of the nations, with representatives of 
the pope, and of the Jews present, the formation of the 
confederacy within the bounds of the old Roman Em- 
pire, and, lo, the Revived Roman Empire again in ex- 
istence for the judgment strokes of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

When we now read what the observing men of the 
world are beginning to think and say about this great 
war, we see, before our very faces, the fulfillment of 
that word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 
Now hear what some are saying, and know that I am 
not the only one who sees things as I am showing in 
these lectures: 

1. Here is a quotation from a letter written April 3, 
1914: "I anticipate tremendous events in this or next 
year which will startle a sleeping Church and a dead 
world. It is the centennial of Wellington's victory 
over Napoleon at Waterloo, and I expect that Eng- 
land will again come into some great danger and 
trouble." 

2. Pastor Guers, of Geneva, Switzerland, wrote 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 63 

over fifty years ago : ''What political revolutions, what 
overturnings, v^hat complete remodeling of the map 
of Europe, w^hat calamities of all kinds does the one 
single prophetic fact of the approaching restoration of 
the Roman Empire presuppose under the new form with 
which it is to be invested — a confederacy of the nations. 
And we, even we in Switzerland, are on Roman earth. 
We are in the very crater of the volcano. It does not 
yet vomit forth its torrents of lava, but already the 
soil trembles under our feet from one end of the 
Roman earth to the other." 

What would he write were he alive to-day? The 
lava is now flowing in torrents. The papal beast will 
soon rise out of the great war-torn, tempest-tossed 
Gentile sea. 

3. Another rises to remark, somewhat gleefully: 
"This war is not going to end in diplomacy, it is 
going to end diplomacy. It is quite a different sort of 
war from any that has ever gone before it. At the 
end there will be no conference of Europe on the old 
lines at all, but a conference o£ the world, and then 
all nations will federate." 

4. And still another says: "We are rolling up the 
map of Europe. We are blotting out its lines in seas 
of blood. Let the new Europe that is to rise out of 
these red seas of blood, be the Europe of the people, 
and not merely a chess board for the old players. Let 
us say that never again shall this horror come upon us, 
that no nation shall be permitted to arm itself to the 
menace of the peace of the world, that Europe shall 
be policed by one force, and that force shall be in 
the hands of one executive, representing all the 



64 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

powers." Hence the one world-king, and who so fit 
for that exalted position as the pope of Rome, with his 
temporal power restored under the international guar- 
antees? This is certainly what we are coming to. 

Rejecting God's Word and plan, and the blood of 
His Son (2 Cor. 11: 13-15), the world will soon set 
up its last king, and God, in these, the last days (Rev. 
13 and 17). But the stone which such builders reject 
will be made the headstone of the corner, and, falling 
suddenly out of heaven. He with His millennial king- 
dom will grind the beast and the kings of the earth 
to powder. Read the second Psalm, which will then 
be literally fufilled, though it had a partial fulfillment 
at the crucifixion. "Even so, come. Lord Jesus." 

Thank God for the revelation of His Word, that we 
being forewarned, might be ready. 

"And Jehovah said. Shall I hide from Abraham that 
thing which I [propose] to do?" (Gen. 18: 17). Abra- 
ham knew, though Sodom did not. Sodom could 
have known, but would not. 

"Surely Jehovah God will do nothing, but he reveal- 
eth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 
2:7) 

"There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, 
and maketh known what shall be in the last days" 
(Dan. 2:28). God is not to blame if a man will not 
read the Bible and find out what is to be in the last 
days. 

"But ye, brethren, are not* in darkness that that day 
should overtake you as a thief ; for when they shall 
say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall 
come upon them, and they shall not escape" (1 Thess. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 65 

5:1-5). Here are two classes in the last days: The 
"brethren" who are not in darkness and are not sur- 
prised at the time, or manner, of the thief's coming, 
and the rest who will then be saying, "Peace and 
safety." 

"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunken- 
ness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon 
you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come upon all 
them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth. 
Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may 
be accounted worthy to escape all these things, and to 
stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21 : 34-36). 

"And when these things begin to come to pass, 
then look up, and lift up your heads; for your deliver- 
ance draweth nigh" (Luke 21 : 28). 

The most imminent thing now, the very next event 
on the prophetic chart, is the first resurrection and the 
departure of the true Church to meet the Lord in the 
air. 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 3:10 
with Mat. 25 : 10. 

Here is one more indication of how the lines are al- 
ready forming for the closing of the great war : — During 
January of this year a remarkable meeting was held in 
New York City. Most people passed it up without a 
moment's thought, but not so the real Bible students. 
It was attended by leading Jews and Gentiles, and its 
object was to begin a movement whereby the Jews 
w^ould have representatives in the peace confer- 
ence at the end of the w^ar, to insist on Jewish 
emancipation throughout the world, and the erec- 
tion of the Jewish state again in Palestine under 



66 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

international guarantees, such as the CathoUcs are 
demanding for the pope. 

In the March, 1915, number of Our Hope, a maga- 
zine coming to my table monthly, on pages 520-521, I 
found 

This Startling Proposal: 

"Reginald J. Campbell, pastor of the London City 
Temple, and leader of the New Theology in England, 
a system which denies the doctrine of Christ, has now 
come forward with a suggestion that a great and uni- 
versal church council be held in the near future. The 
object is that the churches may all unite and talk 
over a way how the peace in Europe may be restored. 

"The Christian Commonwealth, of London, Eng- 
land, contains the information in the former para- 
graph. Mr. Campbell's words were as follows : 'Only 
one person in the world can summon such a con- 
ference with any hope of success : the Roman pontiff. 
The Archbishop of Canterbury could not do it; for 
Rome v^^ould not listen. The Metropolitan of the 
eastern churches could not do it. Rome holds the key 
to the situation. Let her try, and Protestantism will 
think better of her than has been the case for nearly 
four hundred years.' 

"This bold suggestion has brought responses from 
the so-called 'evangelical churches.' F. B. Meyer en- 
dorses the plan, and writes, 'I would be proud to stand 
with men like Cardinal Mercier in such an attempt.' 

"J. Scott Lidgett, secretary of the Free Church 
Council, also suggests union with Rome. He says, 
'In my judgment we ought frankly to co-operate with 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 67 

the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, 
and all other forms of Christianity for this object. 
If the pope is prepared to lead the way, no ecclesias- 
tical or theological differences, however important, 
should be allowed to prevent Protestants from joining 
with him.' 

"A prominent Wesleyan minister writes: 'If the 
pope can do it, by all means let him do it, and God 
bless him.' " 

In many of the smaller towns the Federated Church 
is becoming more and more a reality, the number of 
them are slowly, but surely, increasing, a sure har- 
binger of the soon to be great universal political and 
ecclesiastical confederacy of the nations. 

Consider this News Dispatch: 

"Hays, Kan., March 13, 1915.— Dr. Frank Strong, 
chancellor of the University of Kansas, speaking to 
the editors and teachers of the Golden Belt District, 
who are in session here, told them to-day that the 
European war means the temporary collapse of civili- 
zation, and is due entirely to the fact that Christianity 
has failed to exert the political influence it should 
(what a mistake for him to understand that to be the 
mission of Christianity). The war has shown that 
culture cannot be depended upon as the sole basis of 
civilization. We believed that intellectual development 
made men good. The smoking ruins of many cities 
and the terrible carnage of the Marne and the Aisne 
show how false is this assumption. Purely formal 
religion cannot be the basis of a great civilization. 

"Christianity must end its divisions so it may speak 



68 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

with unity and authority. It must become a govern- 
ing force in our economic and political system 
(the very argument of the Catholics). Christianity 
must control political forms so that through political 
agencies it may adequately express itself (must speak 
politically, dominate politics and governments, and 
thus govern the world, as if that is its mission, instead 
of saving men). A united Christianity can end war. 
If Christianity had remained without division, and 
there was one universal head (Catholics declare there 
is), then the head of the Church could have prevented 
the war." 

Is Chancellor Strong a Catholic ? He puts forth the 
very appeal of the Roman Catholic Church. That 
church says, "If our pope had only been recognized as 
a temporal ruler, he would 'have prevented the war.' 
Recognize him now, and he will end it. Protect him 
under the international guarantees, and he will for- 
ever make war an impossibility." How foolish our sup- 
posedly educated men are in playing into the hands of 
the papacy. 

In concluding these lectures I will give you 

A Summary of What They Contain: 

1. An account of the origin, character, and length 
of the times of the Gentiles. This is that prophetic 
period outlined in Daniel 2 and 7 compared with Rev. 
13 and 17. It began with Nebuchadnezzar, the king of 
Babylon, in 586 B. C, and will end with the second 
coming of Christ. In it the Gentiles are in the ascend- 
ancy and Israel is trodden under foot, together with 
their land, Palestine, and their city, Jerusalem. 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 69 

2. Israel only is the divinely chosen and intended 
nation (Deut. 32:8), and, though God will make an 
end of all the Gentile nations. He never will make a 
full end of Israel. He has a foreordained and eternal 
purpose to work out through Israel, and He causes all 
Gentile nations to rise, run their course, and pass 
away, all in relation to Israel. 

3. Dan. 2 and 7 declare that four great beast mon- 
archies were to constitute the governing force during 
the times of the Gentiles. Three are named as Baby- 
lonia, Medo-Persia, and Greece, or Macedonia. The 
fourth has a minute description, and history unites 
with the Bible in declaring it to be the Roman Empire, 
which was to have a long and multiform career. 

(1.) It was to rise, progress, and unify itself, sub- 
duing the whole earth. It did. 

(2.) It was to divide into the legs of Nebuchad- 
nezzar's dream image. It did. There was the West- 
ern Roman Empire, which fell in A. D. 476, and there 
was the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell in A. D. 
1453. 

(3.) After the legs were the feet and the ten toes, 
which are called "ten horns," which are declared to be 
ten kingdoms into which the fourth beast was to be 
divided after 476 and 1453 A. D. These ten kingdoms 
would federate. 

(4.) The Roman Empire, as such, has passed away, 
received a deathstroke, but is to be revived under the 
ten toe condition, a great confederacy of ten nations 
within the territory of the old Roman Empire. This 
confederacy has not yet materialized, but is in the air, 
preparing to form at the close of the present great 
European war. 



70 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

4. From the organization of the great confederacy 
there are to be seven more years, Daniel's seventieth 
week, until Christ is revealed from heaven to destroy 
the beast — the last imperial ruler over the restored 
empire — and the kings of the earth — the rulers over 
the confederated nations. 

5. The Bible and the present Revival of Romanism 
declare that all things are shaping to make the pope 
the ruler over the confederated nations, the last ruler 
in the Revived Roman Empire. 

6. When the pope thus regains his temporal power 
under the international guarantees, which he is going 
to demand at the coming peace conference at the close 
of the great war, he will make a treaty with the Jew in 
Palestine, to place, and protect, his people in their re- 
stored kingdom. This treaty will be for seven years, 
but in the midst of that last week of seven years, he 
will deliberately and openly break it by setting up his 
idol in their temple at Jerusalem. The nation will re- 
fuse to worship the idol, and this will precipitate the 
great tribulation which is to overspread the whole 
earth. 

7. Sometime after the commencement of the seven 
years, and before he breaks his treaty with Israel "in 
the midst of the week," the ten confederated nations 
within the Revived Roman Empire will fall out among 
themselves and fight the European war all over again. 
As a result three of the ten will be "plucked up by the 
roots," Dan. 7:8, 20, 24, 25. Suppose, for instance, 
that the Allies win in this war. Britain will seek to 
dominate all the rest, and the world for that mattei. 
Do you not see the same struggle again between the 



FROM A BIBLE STANDPOINT 71 

Briton and the Muscovite. Britain is not able to 
handle the Teuton alone. Would she be able to con- 
quer the Muscovite? Seven nations out of the ten 
are left, and the pope. They constitute "the beast and 
the kings of the earth" of Rev. 19 : 19. 

The Solemn Warning 

to have nothing to do with the confederacy, either in 
state or church, political or religious, see Isa. 8:9-13. 

Consider God's Clear Statement 

of what He will declare the commingling of Roman 
and Greek Catholicism, with the various sects of Prot- 
estantism, in the pope's great confederacy, to be, see 
Rev. 17: 1-5, especially verse 5. "Mystery, Babylon, 
the great, the mother o£ harlots and abominations 
of the earth" does not yet appear. This is God's 
name for the religious federation when the Roman 
Empire has been revived. Behold, what your "fed- 
erated church" will eventually lead to. Have nothing 
to do with it, God will destroy you with it. 

Finally. 

Toward the latter part of the last three and an half 
years of Daniel's seventieth week the beast and his 
confederated kings have a change of heart (1 John 2: 
22), and turn on apostate Christianity, the federated 
Church systems, and utterly destroy it, and them, from 
off the face of the earth (Rev. 17: 15-18). 



72 THE EUROPEAN WAR 

The Christian's Attitude 

remains to be noticed. See it in four particulars : 

1. Know God's Book. In it alone is to be found 
God's secret concerning what shall be in the last days, 
as well as the many other features of the Divine reve- 
lation. 

2. Locate himself in the present dispensation, and 
the stream of prophecy. He should know what comes 
next, and how, and why the Lord returns. 

3. He is to watch (Mk. 13:32-37), and wait (1 
Thess. 1: 10), and pray for "his Son from heaven" 
(Rev. 22:20). 

4. Let him Hve absolutely separated (2 Cor. 6: 14- 
18), and be always ready (Mat. 25: 10). 

Remember 

1. That Satan is coming. Rev. 12: 12. 

2. That Antichrist shall be revealed in his time. 2 
Thess. 2: 1-12 and Rev. 13 : 1-10. 

3. That God will send His Son back into this world. 
2 Thess. 1 : 7-10 and Mat. 24: 30. 

"Even so, come Lord Jesus." 



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